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Duration of Severe Pain Following Robot Assisted Upper Left Lobectomy

Lung Cancer | Last Active: Aug 12, 2023 | Replies (50)
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@merpreb

Hi Vic- I agree. You almost have to be your own doctor. Before any procedure, you should know what is supposed to happen and discuss your medications with your doctor. Ask why you are prescribed one thing over another. Sometimes it can take several tries before the right one is found for you.

No matter what kind of surgery is done, be it steel or flesh the topography of your chest is being messed with, and there will be many changes that you won't see. After my LUL was removed one of my muscles contracted for months. And it still quivers every now and then. lol

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vic83 | @vic83 | Jul 9, 2023

Hi Merry. You are so right! My own clinical profile is now so complicated I have to be sure they don't miss something when prescribing.
You will have read that I did my second VAT which has been much more difficult than the first (that was a walk in the park).
I am waiting to schedule radiation for another nodule that has been growing. It is considered another adenocarcinoma; they just want it a little bigger. Then there is another nodule, but it is small and quiet, so I hope that after the upcoming radiation, I get a rest for a while.
There is the issue of STAS - Spread Through Air Space - that was present in the last surgery. Have you encountered that in your experience? The nodule sheds cells into the air space? I know that it is only from 2015 that it became an official way for cancer to spread. But how lung do such cells live without a blood supply and where might they settle? Not much written on it. Less than multifocal!!!! I have just been put under "close observation." STAS is considered to worsen one's prognosis. So now it is included in Pathology Reports. I was still a Stage 1 but now with STAS.

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